couplets

In a twist that Alicia will appreciate, the plaintiff apparently argued that a poem in rhyming couplets is not a poem.

It Must Give Pleasure, It Must Change : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

This secular, computerized age might generate more couplets from the software that anagrammatizes individual words to no end: has anyone tried making modern poems from such things?

anagrams in america : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Save the youth who in couplets and rhymes shall cry,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

This poem in 550 lines of running pentameter couplets is indeed a sustained polemic against Byronic scepticism on temporal and theological grounds, one spliced with ad hominem attacks yet also graced with sisterly concern for this poet who spurns "a brighter state" for a "quicksand" earth.

Scepticism and Its Costs: Hemans's Reading of Byron 2001

The Apadāna version in ninety-two verse-couplets is then quoted.

Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909

Most of the proverbs are in couplets or triplets, or some modifications of them, the members of which correspond in structure and length, as if arranged to be compared one with another.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Edward Hirsch has a wonderful basketball poem I’ve taught, whose title is escaping me, in couplets, whose final image is the ball swishing through the net.

First Loves : Major Jackson : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Though the remainder of the poem is written entirely in couplets, the first four lines of "Verses" form an envelope quatrain (like the first four lines of every sonnet by

Commentary on "Verses" by L.E.L. 2000

Puck is fond of trochaic tetrameter in couplets, that is, four-beat verse starling off on a stressed syllable:

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

Meanwhile it is by a sarcastic verse in the Vita written by himself in Latin couplets, that the old man himself seems to account for a certain courtesy bestowed upon him after his return (Regia conanti calamo defendere iura.

The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 1650